From 9c3ebdaa0d5bdc614a16b1bd63e54e91253f3f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:46:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Add a "Sibling Repos" section for referencing other forks and similar repos --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 07b097f..7644bf8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). * [Maintainer Fatigue](#maintainer-fatigue) * [Deskilling](#deskilling) * [License](#license) +* [Sibling Repos](#sibling-repos) ## Definitions @@ -412,6 +413,12 @@ There is increasing evidence to show that LLMs negatively impact developers' cod This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license. Please see [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for more information. +# Sibling Repos + +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. + +- [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. + [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ [Elvish]: https://elv.sh From 74936461391dc3fd89a50177363d270d5c25fcb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:24:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Add noai.starlightnet.work/list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thank you to @tjk for the suggestion and to @cyrneko for working on the list and also this repo 💙 --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7644bf8..a87a3b1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. - [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. +- [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ From c83feae121070d80d58a018d4f1c8a647da703db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:29:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Add slop-free-index Thanks to @sebastien for suggesting it and thanks to @brib for maintaining this. --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a87a3b1..4797da8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -415,10 +415,11 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 # Sibling Repos -This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. - [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. +- [slop-free-index](https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index) is a list of software that has taken steps to reject AI in its development processes. [Delta Chat]: https://delta.chat/en/ From 9f05ddf4293c6c09858e8cd2e85e7eccbeb216ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:31:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] clean up links and wording --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4797da8..c6efd2d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. -- [codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. #22) to help us here. +- [llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. [#12](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/12), [#22](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/22)) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. - [slop-free-index](https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index) is a list of software that has taken steps to reject AI in its development processes. From acb7d2e71b9ba05c86cc205d367e75eca078f62d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] note that some of these repos are kind of the opposite of ours, but still in a good way :) --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c6efd2d..9691d63 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ This repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 # Sibling Repos -This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding LLM usage. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. +This is a section for repos that are similar to this one either because they are also forks of the original upstream, or because they align with our goal of idenitifying and avoiding AI/LLM usage OR identifying/elevating projects that do NOT use AI/LLMs. These repos are not all maintained by the same people, but we may share some contributors and generally be kind FOSS nieghbors. - [llm-afflicted-software](https://codeberg.org/ai-alternatives/llm-afflicted-software) offers a similar list to ours here, however in YMAL file format for each category, making it more suitable to consumption via code (for instance writing a CLI, GUI, or TUI tool to consume it). They've also kindly reached out in the past and submitted Issues and PRs (e.g. [#12](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/issues/12), [#22](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/22)) to help us here. - [forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/](https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/) which is the repo for this [no-AI list](https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html) that lists projects that have explicitly pledged not to use AI or have an explicit policy to not use AI. From c503c35d7b4d2d83a62f098410c83e3e504c38e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jessebot Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:19:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] fix javascript not being clickable --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9691d63..379e431 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). * [Programming Language-Specific Tooling](#programming-language-specific-tooling) * [C](#c) * [CSS](#css) - * [JavaScript / TypeScript](#javascript--typescript) + * [JavaScript / TypeScript](#javascript-and-typescript) * [Python](#python) * [Rust](#rust) * [Game Engines](#game-engines) @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ To Contribute, checkout our [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](./CONTRIBUTING.md). |---|---|---|---| | [`tailwindcss`](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss) | [`twind`](https://github.com/tw-in-js/twind) | [Sponsorship page states explicitly that the founder uses AI to write code and even sells access to his "Cursor/Claude/AGENTS.md rules"](https://tailwindcss.com/sponsor) | | -### JavaScript / TypeScript +### JavaScript And TypeScript | Name | Alternative(s) | Evidence | Notes | |---|---|---|---|